Steelworkers demonstrate in Westminster
FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers...
Railworkers will resist any Tory attack on their right to strike!
RAIL unions yesterday slammed Tory plans to illegalise rail strikes. Page 60 of the Conservative Party general election manifesto says: ‘We will work with train...
Camberwell Art College occupied!
WE’RE here over Christmas,’ BA painting student Tobias Newbigin said at the occupation of the Camberwell College of Art yesterday. The occupation of the Wilson...
Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest
THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...
RETURN US TO OUR CHAGOS ISLANDS – Hengrid Permal urges TUC Congress delegates
‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH – BMA accuses Blair government
The Blair government is trawling Europe for health privateers to carry out elective operations in the NHS, the British Medical Association yesterday revealed in...
Young Socialists Student Society
Public lectures – Trotskyism today
Euro Crisis Crunch Time
US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...
Plymouth principal Phillips quits
UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...
Vote For The 5 Wrp Candidates!
ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued...
Hamas protecting aid convoys
GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...
£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
Answer Class War Budget With A General Strike
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s class war budget yesterday introduced massive tax cuts for the rich and launched huge new attacks on the working class, the old,...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...
Action Needed To Defend NHS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
HEALTH PRIVATEERS MOVING IN ON GPs!
NHS London has signed a £7 million contract with a group of multi-national privateers to provide business training for GPs – even before the...
Unis already raising fees to £9,250
UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...
LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson
LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...
Students Occupy Against Fees
SEVERAL universities were being occupied yesterday, on the eve of today’s National Day of Action against the introduction of £9,000-a-year tuition fees and the...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Labour Leads Anti-Brexit Coalition!
TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...
Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster rough sleepers
HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...
Bma White Paper ‘Concerns’
THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...
PM May assures Trump over trade deal with US
‘WE WANT to trade with the UK, and the UK wants to trade with us. We are by far their biggest trading partner and...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
Tories slam door on child refugees
THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...
Palestinian children urge – ‘stop the killing!’
DOZENS of Palestinian children staged a protest on Monday to deliver an ‘urgent appeal to stop the killing of Gaza’s children’ to international community...
Iran will never surrender! – says Ayatollah Khamenei
LEADER of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the Iranian nation will ‘firmly stand against’ an imposed war. In a televised message...
Stop NHS Cuts And Closures
Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...
FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers
CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY – This Sunday
Sunday November 29th
‘We rescue people not banks’ say 4,000 firefighters marching in London
OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...
Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!
LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...
REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association
THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...
Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers
WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...
MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’
PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Tories withdraw infection control fund today!
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday
‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
TORIES MOVE TO ILLEGALISE STRIKES! – Unite offers ‘constructive discussions’
‘THE government’s proposals on union ballots will make legal strikes close to impossible,’ TUC leader Francis O’Grady said yesterday. She was responding to an announcement...
National Gallery strike today!
NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
NO BANKERS OCCUPATION! – Greek workers condemn government ‘traitors’
FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...
Special Forces Back In North
Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...